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Subject: Re: See me, hear me, feel me, touch me.
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In article <3otqpp$78b@cabell.vcu.edu> mus5cbh@cabell.vcu.edu (Corbett B. Hammond) writes:
>From: mus5cbh@cabell.vcu.edu (Corbett B. Hammond)
>Subject: Re: See me, hear me, feel me, touch me.
>Date: 11 May 1995 16:07:21 -0400

>mvalley@jack.sns.com (Michael Valley) writes:

>>Ade The Shade (adrian@abarnett.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>>:  One is my name...the other is not. <web44583q239@daffy.millersv.edu> wrote:
>>:  >Anyway, though (pardon if I tend to be a little disorganized...) a person would
>>:  >ask me to prove there is a God.  Who do you know there is a God.  I would also
>>:  >ask, can you prove there is such a thing as magnatism?

>>: Well, you could go and buy a "magnat", and an iron nail. Bring the
>>: two together and see what happens. Does this help?

>>This really does not PROVE magnetism. How do you know that magnetism caused
>>the magnet to attract the iron nail? Maybe it was an invisible elf that
>>brought the two together? I think this is what the original poster tried to 
>>touch on... You can see the effects of magnetism, but can you see magnetism?

>  The force of magnetism can be proven.  On a lodestone are
>tiny little charged particles.  A lodestone is a charged little
>sliver of some earthy material.  What material, I'm not sure,
>but we'll overlook this minor point.
>  These charged particles will attract other oppositely charged
>particles, particularly those in iron, and repel similarly
>charged particles, those in most other magnets.  This effect
>can be proved theoretically, since we are not at a point in
>technological advancement where we can observe atoms by
>themselves.
>  Hope this has cleared things up just a bit, and we'll see you
>another time.

>mr. wizard



